Academics and students have been forced to abandon Sudan's universities as the conflict continues.
Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan on April 19, 2023Sudan’s academics and students have been forced to abandon universities and residential campuses following two weeks of heavy artillery and aerial bombardment in the capital Khartoum and other major cities, as clashes have erupted between warring military factions.
“This was an unexpected conflict,” says Deen Sharp, an urban geographer at the London School of Economics. Sharp is compiling a list of academics in Sudan who need money, food, water and medicines. “No one was really prepared.” The University of Khartoum is close to both SAF headquarters and RSF headquarters. Almost 90 students and faculty living on the university campus were stranded. They moved to the basement where they hid with some staff members for days. They were freed three days later, but one of the students died from gunfire and had to be buried on the grounds of the engineering campus.
Shahinaz Bedri, director general of the national public health laboratory in Khartoum and a pathologist at Ahfad University for women in Omdurman, Khartoum state, Sudan.Pathologist and director-general of the National Public Health Laboratory in Khartoum Several days ago, armed groups entered the lab, ordered our security staff who are trained to handle emergencies to leave. We are worried that there might be a bio-risk for them if they open fridges, because they go in and they sabotage. They have been known to enter health facilities.
The other thing is that we have very sensitive analytical chemistry equipment like gas chromatography. Some are attached to gas cylinders like helium and hydrogen, so we don’t want somebody going in and shooting. That’s a worry for us.Social and medical anthropologist at the Centre for Economic, Legal and Social Studies in Khartoum
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